Orange Cupcakes

It's start of holiday season here in United States. Fall has already arrived and leaves are turning into beautiful colors. Halloween is celebrated on 31st October.Day is often associated with orange and black colors and Jac-o'-lantern a carved pumpkin.

Though this day is associated with kids;grown-ups also loves it.Kids go for trick-or-treating in the neighborhood wearing various costumes like spiderman(most favorite one),witches,angles,fairy and what not!!!!

Grown-ups do costume parties,bonfires and watching horror movies(Not on my list for sure).

I am thinking about doing something extra special this year as my daughter is now old enough to go for trick-or-treating wearing a costume she will pick up soon;yes now she started to picking what she want whenever we go for shopping. So I decided to make cupcakes and trying few flavorings and my husband and daughter liked it so far.Here comes the orange cupcakes.

Ingredients-

For cupcakes(makes 8-9 cupcakes)

• 3/4 cups all- purpose flour
• 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoon superfine sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon orange extract
• 8 tablespoon or 1 stick of soft unsalted butter ( at room temperature) or margarine(but personally I don't like it's taste)
• zest of 1 medium size orange
• 3 tablespoon orange juice( freshly squeezed)
• 2 eggs at room temperature

Method-

1. Pre heat the oven at 375⁰F
2. Sift the flour and baking powder
3. Beat the butter till it gets creamy with hand mixer or cake mixer;then add sugar and beat again adding 1 egg at a time.
4. Add orange zest,orange extract, vanilla extract,orange juice and mix well.
5. Now start adding sifted flour gradually; beat the mixture scarping the sides of bowl frequently to avoid unmixed flour patches.
6. Scoop the batter with ice cream scooper(for even size cupcakes) in a muffin pan lined with cupcake liners and bake for 13-15 minutes or till get golden brown. To taste the doneness insert toothpick into center of cupcakes while they are in oven.
7. Take out the cupcakes and cool it completely on wire rack.
8. Decorate with icing.